Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has advocated a restructuring of the sharing formula of Nigeria’s revenue in favour of states. POLITICS NIGERIA reports.Information Guide Nigeria
El-Rufai, who spoke at the policy and book presentation in Abuja on Tuesday by Dr. Zainab Usman, Director of the Carnegie Africa Programme, said the new formula will be the only way citizens can hold governors to account.
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“If we reverse the revenue allocation and the federal government has only 20 percent, and 80 percent goes to the states, then you go to the exclusive list and revert to the 1963 Constitution where the FG had limited functions and most of the functions went to the states.NYSC Portal
“If your general hospitals don’t work, if your primary schools don’t work, if your secondary schools don’t work, and so on. You ask your governor.
“Then things will begin to change. The states will have enough resources to compete, just like in the days of regional governments,” he said.JAMB Result
